The Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) will concentrate on providing trainings to healthcare and social care professionals mainly on communications and psychosocial interventions. Holistic training programmes will also be conducted to end-of-life care (EoLC) volunteers, in both face-to-face and virtual format. Besides, public education initiatives will be raised to increase the public awareness on end-of-life care, especially on advance care planning and encouraging communications between patients and the family members. A systematic evaluation will be taken place, not only to evaluate the effectiveness of the afore-mentioned education programmes, but also to evaluate the effectiveness of the end-of-life care service model, which developed by the HKU team, and implemented by the project’s NGO partners.
Project Introduction
Project Objectives
- Increase the capacity of end-of-life care for healthcare and social care professionals
- Increase the awareness of end-of-life care for general public
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the Project’s end-of-life care service models, so as to general evidence-based journal papers for reference in academic field; and also to provide a feasible end-of-life care system for government units’ consideration on service regularization
Target Service Users
- Policymakers, healthcare and social care professionals, patients and family members, and the general public
Service Components
- Professional Training
- 3-tier online professional learning platform
- Domain-specific courses
- ICEST model training courses
- Social work students training courses
- EoLC training courses for teachers
- QELCA© train-the-trainer programme
- Actualisation programme
- International Conference
- Volunteer Training
- Online learning platform for volunteers
- Volunteer core training programme
- Volunteer thematic training programme
- Volunteer coordinator training programme
- Volunteer leaders training programme
- Public Education
- Public seminars and symposium
- Newspaper articles
- Press conference
- Videos on EoLC
- Public education campaign
- Facebook page
- Project Evaluation
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- Service evaluations
- Programme evaluations
- Elderly community service agency survey
- Community-wide public survey
- Academic papers
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Contact:
Tel: 3917 1221; Email: jcecc@hku.hk (Office Hour: Monday to Friday, 9am – 1pm; 2pm – 6pm)
